How To Connect To KVMs With Just 1 Public IP Address (Kimsufi VPS)

JustaGuy

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Jan 1, 2010
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Hi,

I have PVE4 installed on a Kimsufi VPS, & I have just the one IP address on vmbr0 with which to access the host. As such, I have my KVM set with NAT selected in the network interface, since there aren't any more addresses that can be assigned to it if I were to use a bridge.

How do I need to set up networking so that I can ssh, etc. to (& otherwise reach) the KVM?

I had the idea that I could use the PVE firewall to port forward to the guest, but it's disabled (greyed out) when the network device is set to NAT mode.

Then I thought I could set vmbr0 to 0.0.0.0 & give pfSense the public IP address, then distribute traffic through the firewall, but then I'd lose access to PVE if it were ever to go down, as port 8006 would have to be routed through it. I don't think I could configure it all the way it would need to be in one shot prior to rebooting to activate all that anyway- seems risky, & I'd probably end up having to reinstall PVE through the Kimsufi Control Panel to regain access.

Please advise.

Thanks,

-J
 

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